{"id":40386,"date":"2022-01-07T08:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/south-korean-presidential-hopeful-says-state-should-pay-for-hair-loss-treatment"},"modified":"2022-01-07T08:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:25:25","slug":"south-korea-should-fund-hair-loss-treatment-says-election-hopeful-in-bald-bid-for-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40386","title":{"rendered":"South Korea should fund hair loss treatment, says election hopeful in bald bid for power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal for hair regrowth on public healthcare insurance by Lee Jae-myung criticised as populist by opponents<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s ruling party presidential candidate has ignited a fierce debate after proposing that the country\u2019s public healthcare insurance should cover hair loss treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/30\/south-korea-presidential-contender-vows-to-seek-nuclear-powered-submarines-months-after-australias-aukus-deal\">Lee Jae-myung<\/a>\u2019s proposal this week has triggered a flood of messages of support on online communities for people suffering hair loss \u2013 but also prompted accusations that it was a bald attempt to win votes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/06\/south-korean-presidential-hopeful-says-state-should-pay-for-hair-loss-treatment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal for hair regrowth on public healthcare insurance by Lee Jae-myung criticised as populist by opponentsSouth Korea\u2019s ruling party presidential candidate has ignited a fierce debate after proposing that the country\u2019s public healthcare insurance s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2477,346,1059,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hair-loss","category-health","category-health-policy","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40387,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40386\/revisions\/40387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}